The Liberal Democrat former leader accused Brexit campaigners of having a vision that would leave Britain “divided and weakened”, and s aid the risks of not having a say over the country’s future in the 28-member bloc were “very clear”.
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Net migration to the United Kingdom has been rising since the end of 2012, despite government targets to bring it down.
Gove’s appearance mirrored a similar programme featuring Cameron on Thursday night, during which he was grilled on his failure to achieve his target of bringing immigration down to below 100,000 arrivals per year.
Challenged on the lack of global leaders and organisations backing the Leave campaign, he said the public had “had enough of experts” saying “they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong”. He suggested that it depended on when economic growth picked up in continental Europe.
Labour’s Chris Bryant said Cameron had been right to argue Britain would suffer if it left the European Union: “I’m not a fan of David Cameron but I think he put some of the arguments really well; there are other arguments that I think he could have put better”.
“This is so important, for once, I’m not prepared to give the benefit of the doubt by the people”.
Greg Hands, chief secretary to the Treasury, said: “Doctors and nurses want to stay in Europe because they understand that quitting the single market would damage the NHS by shrinking the economy”. During an European Union summit in 2013, he famously lost his temper when other leaders tried cutting Britain’s rebate on the European Union budget, saying: “In this town you have to be ready for an ambush at any minute”.
“Where David Cameron was pessimistic and talked Britain down, Gove was optimistic and explained how we can supercharge Britain after we take back control”.
At one point university student Soraya Bouazzaoui told Mr Cameron he was “waffling” as he replied to her question about the potential for Turkey joining the EU.
“Sometimes this organisation [the EU] drives me insane”, he said.
Lord Kinnock said: “Time is running out for people to have their say in this referendum and that’s why we are mobilising grassroots volunteers and leading public figures in every region and nation on Saturday to drive up registrations and encourage postal votes”.
“Leaving the single market would be an act of economic self-harm for Britain and we absolutely shouldn’t do it”.
“That would be awful”, he said.
“Only Labour can save Britain from Brexit”, they said.
“There is no prospect of Turkey joining the European Union in decades”.
“In a case of deja vu. two further Brexit polls have weighed on the pound, as the currency s sensitivity seemingly increases as the referendum date approaches”, said XTB analyst David Cheetham.
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Merkel and Draghi added their voices to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who have both warned of consequences for Britain if it voted to leave.
